Trump has spoken at the annual conservative political conference for the past several years. (Evan Vucci/AP)

President Trump will speak at the Conservative Political Action Conference Friday, the group announced, amid fallout from the melee surrounding another controversial scheduled speaker, Milo Yiannopoulos.

"We are honored that @POTUS will return to #CPAC2017 on Friday, Feb 24th at 10:00am(ET). Join us for this history-making moment @CPAC," Matt Schlapp, the chairman of the American Conservative Union, which hosts CPAC, tweeted Monday.

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Trump has spoken at the annual conservative political conference for the past several years.

This year, however, his address will come alongside that of Yiannopoulos, the Breitbart editor who is under fresh fire for having appeared, in a recent podcast, to express support of pedophilia.

In a recently resurfaced episode of "The Drunken Peasants" podcast, the alt-right provocateur recalled his own sexual abuse as a teen and did not condemn similar relationships between children and men.

Yiannopoulos, in fact, said young boys "discover who they are" through such relationships, even when they're sexual in nature, and can "give them security and safety and provide them with love and a reliable rock where they can't speak to their parents."

A host with the popular podcast fired back at Yiannopoulos and said, "Sounds like Catholic priest molestation to me."

Milo Yiannopoulos denied supporting pedophilia and said he was not addressing "anything illegal" during the "Drunken Peasants" interview and he misspoke by using the word "boy." (Jeremy Papasso/AP)

"I'm grateful for Father Michael," Yiannopoulos replied. "I wouldn't give nearly such good head if it wasn't for him."

The clips, originally from a January 2016 episode, were brought to light again by a conservative blog known as the Reagan Battalion in an apparent attempt to oppose the Breitbart editor's scheduled appearance at CPAC, which begins Wednesday in Oxon Hill, Md.

Later Monday, Yiannopoulos saw his book deal with Simon & Schuster canceled, due to his comments.

On Monday night, Simon & Schuster canceled the publication of "Dangerous" an autobiography of and by Yiannopoulos that was due out in June, Publishers Weekly reported.

At one time just a fringe character with a penchant for hate speech, Yiannopoulos has gained enormous notoriety in recent months as his former boss at Breitbart, Stephen Bannon, now Trump's chief White House strategist, gained influence in the President's orbit.

Yiannopoulos, for his own part, also made headlines after he was banned from Twitter for prompted online bullying of comedienne and actress Leslie Jones.

And earlier this month, the University of California-Berkeley cancelled a scheduled Yiannopoulos speech after protests against his event grew violent.

The cancellation, which came amid concerns for public safety, prompted Trump to threaten the school with withholding federal funds.

After the clips emerged Sunday night, Yiannopoulos drafted a lengthy Facebook post blaming his own "sloppy phrasing" and slamming the clips as a mere attempt to "discredit" him before "establishment Republicans."

He denied supporting pedophilia and said he was not addressing "anything illegal" during the "Drunken Peasants" interview and he misspoke by using the word "boy."

"I shouldn't have used the word 'boy' when I talked about those relationships between older men and younger gay men," Yiannopoulos wrote. "I was talking about my own relationship when I was 17 with a man who was 29. The age of consent in the UK is 16. That was a mistake."

Trump and Yiannopoulos are among more than 70 other speakers at the multi-day event, including Vice President Mike Pence, White House chief of staff Reince Priebus, Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker, Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), as well as Bannon, the former Breitbart executive editor.

Past speakers at CPAC have included former Presidents Ronald Reagan, George W. Bush, former presidential candidates Pat Buchanan, Newt Gingrich and Mitt Romney, as well as conservative media personalities like Rush Limbaugh, Glenn Beck and Ann Coulter.